Having absolutely loved Taylor's "Journey to the Well," I was very excited to read this book. It follows the story of Mary Magdalene, the woman whom Yeshua Christ exorcised seven demons. While the story was indeed comepelling, I must say the book was not as good as her other book. Let me explain why. In "Journey to the Well," the story was about the woman whom Yeshua met at a well and talked to briefly (her face-time in the Bible--so to speak--is very short). So, there was more literary freedom to write about the woman and "make stuff up," horrible as that sounds. However, I feel like for a character such as Mary Magdalene, there are things that one can not just make up. While they make the story interesting, they are just that--literarily made up. Also, in terms of adequately representing Jews in the time of Yeshua, there left much to be desired. In Christ's day, no one would have called Him Jesus. They would have used His Hebrew Name. Also, while some of the Gospel was written with Mary in the scene, I was disappointed when blood and water was not reported as flooding out of Yeshua's side on the Cross. Taylor didn't even mention the resurrection of the dead believers with tombs opening that happened at Calvary. Overall, this book is interesting and a good beach read, but, if I were you, I'd go straight to the Gospels for a more accurate tale.
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